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Elegant Art Déco Platinum Brooch with Aquamarine & Diamonds, c. 1935


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Elegant Art Déco Platinum Brooch with Aquamarine & Diamonds, c. 1935
Elegant Art Déco Platinum Brooch with Aquamarine & Diamonds, c. 1935
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Electricity, this mysterious, marvellous force of nature that took over the world at the beginning of the 20th century, is invisible. And yet it has a colour - at least in our common, culturally shaped memory: electricity is blue. It is a bright blue, like the light of lightning in a dark stormy sky. The colour of electricity has entered the world of fashion as "bleu électrique". The first advertisements using this catchphrase as a colour for fabrics can be found in France in the years shortly before 1890, but it was not until the Art Deco period that this idea also entered the world of jewellery. This era, which was dedicated like no other to modernity and progress in all its facets, such as skyscrapers, automobiles and electric light, also loved jewellery in cool, radiant, electrifying colours. This platinum brooch is set in the centre with a high-quality aquamarine in an intense, clear blue. The octagonal faceted stone weighs 1.79 ct and is set slightly raised above the rectangular design. This allows its colour to come into its own particularly well. Seventy-two diamonds with a total weight of around one and a half carats accompany the stone and set every part of the piece of jewellery, which is typical of the period. The brooch came to us from Cologne. We discovered it without the aquamarine in its centre and added the stone to the brooch according to historical models. The quotation from Helen Bartlett Bridgman: Gems, New York 1915.
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Elegant Art Déco Platinum Brooch with Aquamarine & Diamonds, c. 1935
Electrifying!
€ 3,290.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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